Eileen Chong Eileen Chong i(A123102 works by)
Born: Established: 1980
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Singapore,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Born and raised in Singapore as third-generation Singaporean-Chinese, Eileen Chong moved to Sydney in 2007, where she started on a Master in Creative Writing at Sydney University. She previously taught Linguistics, Literature and Drama, having trained and worked as a high-school teacher in Singapore. Chong won the 2010-11 Poets Union Youth Fellowship. Her work has been shortlisted for most of Australia's primary poetry awards, including twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

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Personal Awards

Awards for Works

Inheritance 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Crossing : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2023 2023;
2023 shortlisted The Newcastle Poetry Prize
Poem for My Ancestors 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward 2021; Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 124)
2021 commended The Newcastle Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon A Thousand Crimson Blooms St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021 20534205 2021 selected work poetry

'Eileen Chong’s luminous poetry examines the histories – personal, familial and cultural – that form our identities and obsessions.

'A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother–daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging.

'Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.'' (Publication summary)
2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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